- MP3 CD: 1 pages
- Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; MP3 Una edition (Oct 1 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1433263637
- ISBN-13: 978-1433263637
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 45 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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"The Wahlöös best--their densest in person and place, their most penetrating in sociology and psychology." --Judith Crist
"[Martin Beck is] a man driven to solve puzzles, with a small tragic intuition swimming deep is his mental waters that will surface suddenly to give a muted howl and then dive down again." --The New York Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"[Martin Beck is] a man driven to solve puzzles, with a small tragic intuition swimming deep is his mental waters that will surface suddenly to give a muted howl and then dive down again." --The New York Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Book Description
A woman robs a bank. A corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within--no firearm in sight. To the eerily intuitive Inspector Martin Beck, these seemingly disparate cases are facets of the same puzzle, and solving it is of vital importance. Only by finding our what happened in the locked room can Beck--haunted by a near-fatal bullet wound and the demise of a soulless marriage--escape from an airtight prison of his own.
From its classic premise, The Locked Room accelerates into an engrossing novel of the mind. Exploring the ramifications of egotism and intellect, luck and accident, and set against the backdrop of the inspired deductions and monstrous errors of Martin Beck and the Stockholm Homicide Squad, this tour de force of detection bears the unmistakable substance and gravity of real life. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
From its classic premise, The Locked Room accelerates into an engrossing novel of the mind. Exploring the ramifications of egotism and intellect, luck and accident, and set against the backdrop of the inspired deductions and monstrous errors of Martin Beck and the Stockholm Homicide Squad, this tour de force of detection bears the unmistakable substance and gravity of real life. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A la Agatha,
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This review is from: The Locked Room (Paperback)
For most of the series you can see the influence of Ed McBain, in this one there is a lot more than a hint of Agatha Cristie. Even with these influences the book is very much a Martin Beck mystery. This is book eight in the series and it keeps the standard high. One of the great things about reading this series from start to finish is that the characters grow and develop. The authors aren't afraid to 'mess with the formula'. You don't feel them tiring of their work or of the people and crimes they write about. Another great book in a great series.
3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Locked Room (Paperback)
Detective Martin Beck is back at work after a near-fatal event at work. A team of colleagues is attempting to solve a series of bank robberies that they are convinced are related. Beck is in the process of solving another case. His work and conclusions are more intriguing than that of the others and finally solved but not prosecuted. All crimes eventually can be all tied together even though they are not officially solved. The crimes are set in the Stockholm of the 70ies and integrated in Sweden's social problems of that era.While I was expecting a masterpiece along the lines of Henning Mankell's criminal investigator Wallander this book did certainly not live up to my expectations. The stories are very fragmented, the sudden shifts from one story to the other are deliberate but destructive to the reader. I did not get hooked onto the book at all - because of its fragmentation it totally lacks suspense. It is hard to relate nowadays to the social problems of the time and they seem to overshadow the story lines in many instances. I concluded for myself that I could not get interested because of too many contemporary references, which will not make this mystery a classic of its genre. While Martin Beck fills the role of an interesting inspector he is pushed to far into the background even though he is supposed to be the novel's hero.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great,
By daveklein222 (New Brunswick) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Locked Room (Paperback)
The seventh Martin Beck novel. Recovering from his misadventures in "The Abominable Man", Beck takes up a seemingly unsolvable case: a friendless, elderly miser, shot one time in the head in a one-bedroom apartment, with locked doors and locked windows, and no gun in sight. Meanwhile, his colleagues are investigating the high-profile shooting of a security guard during a daring bank robbery conducted, apparently, by a beautiful blonde woman.Although the authors begin to get a little too heavy-handed in their social commentary, this is still one of the better Beck novels (in fact it is regarded by many as the best, though I think its predecessor is better.) The dual plot structure and the improbable connection between the crimes make for a great thriller. The characters are engaging, and the ending is wonderful. Read it.
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